Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Saveur All Up In Blognut's Business

This month's edition of the international food rag Saveur has a piece by food writer John T. Edge reviewing 7 US-doughnut shops worth visiting. We were happy to see our local favorite The Doughnut Plant on the list, and even happier when Edge referred to Plant-founder Mark Isreal as a "doughnut Don Quixote."Also on the list:Butler's Colonial Donut House- Westport, MassachusettsStarted by a former Dunkin employee and his wife, Butler's is best known for its Long Johns - yeast-raised rectangles filled with black raspberry jelly and covered in real whipped cream.

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For me, the donut died when Schultz's Cider Mill in Armonk, NY, closed down a few years ago. Their donuts were transcendent. My wife would scoff at me when I rhapsodized about them - until I drove her up there one day. She now mourns with me.

Never made it to Schultz's - but we sympathize with you. Our favorite donuts come from The Carter Mountain apple orchard in Charlottesville, Virginia. It's hard to beat a warm, freshly-made apple-cider donut. I'm sure it won't be the same, but if you're ever in Virginia try them out - maybe they'll ease your longing for Schultz's.

Eric M. you are so right about Schultz's Cider Mill in Armonk, NY...I just found out today that it was sold and is now a new homes development. I used to go there as a kid with my family to buy pumpkins, apple cider and fresh doughnuts...such a sad sad end of a dream that was reality

I use to work at Schultz's Cider Mill while in high school (1994 - 1998). I can remember those brisk fall mornings where the line would run 50 deep out the store. People from literally all over the world would come, and most would make the 1 hour drive from NYC. Ron Howard was a regular there, as were a few other area all-stars. We only served three types, plain, cinnamon/sugar, and powder sugar. The best part was the donut machine, probably from around the 1940s. I would make the dough and pour it into the back of the machine that would "punch" the donuts into the 10 foot track of hot oil. About half way down, it would automatically flip the donut over. It was a family run business and every year they would go to there house in Perth Australia for the whole month of August. I miss that place!!!!!

As to apple cider donuts... yeah, there are great apple cider donuts, but I want to point out, it's easy to make delicious variations on fried dough and batter honey-dipt straight from the hot fat. What is difficult is to make something that is still delicious an hour or two later, and that's the mark of the great donuts.

I miss Schultz's, too. It was my grandfather's cider mill and my aunt and uncle ran the donut shop. Unfortunately, none of us 3rd generationers were able to buy out our parents, so it went to the developer. Those donuts were the best. No cream puff will ever hold a candle to those. We even froze a few and thawed them out, heated them up and they were a little slice of heaven. Grandpa was a workaholic before there were workaholics. He was 91 when it shut down in 2002, and he passed the next year. That place was keeping him alive.

Someone bought that donut machine, so its out there somewhere, pumping out donuts, bringing joy to the masses.

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